Search by police officer making an investigation (Section 165 of CrPc)
Legal provisions regarding search by police officer making an investigation under section 165 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.(1) Whenever an officer in charge of a police station or a police officer making an investigation has reasonable grounds for believing that anything necessary for the purposes of an investigation into any offence which he is authorized to investigate may be found in any place within the limits of the police station of which he is in charge, or to which he is attached, and that cannot, in his opinion, be otherwise obtained without undue delay, such officer may, after recording in writing the grounds of his belief and specify in such writing, so far as possible, the thing for which search is to be made, search, or cause search…